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THBEgyptian Painted Wood / Gesso Chair Legs - Lions (pr)
Lot 12b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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By Artemis Gallery
Sep 26, 2019
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2019-09-26 10:00:00
2019-09-26 10:00:00
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Day 1 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Viking, Russian, Near Eastern, as well as Asian Art from China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma and India. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 1 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Viking, Russian, Near Eastern, as well as Asian Art from China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma and India. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. An incredible and stylish matched pair of hand-carved wooden legs - used to support chair bodies or those of other large pieces of furniture - covered in gesso and painted with a myriad of citrine, vermilion, jet-black hues. Each leg presents with a stocky rectangular body surmounted by the head of a lion, a pair of delineated paws atop an integral plinth, and all above a thick foot portion. A pair of square mortises is present on the interior side and verso of each leg, with a fragment of an original stretcher bar still retained within one rear mortise. The amusing leonine faces boast recessed eyes and raised brows, broad snouts, puffy jowls with painted whiskers and red lips, protruding cheek bones, and perky ears, all framed around a red-and-black mane. The bodies are further decorated with three columns of red and black scales alternating between slender orange scales. Size of each: 3.125" W x 14.8" H (7.9 cm x 37.6 cm); 15.4" H (39.1 cm) on included custom stand.
For a stylistically similar example made from faience, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1977.170: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/552004
Provenance: private Pennsylvania, USA collection; ex-William Ashby estate collection, California, USA
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#149011Both legs have losses to areas of lower foot, lion feet, bodies, and areas of head as shown. Nicks and abrasions to heads, bodies, feet, and bases, with chipping and light fading to original gesso and pigmentation commensurate with age, and several stable fissures that do not compromise the integrity of the legs. Nice earthen deposits and great traces of original pigmentation throughout, and fine patina to unpainted areas.Condition
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